Whilst this event is not on the Legends Tour schedule, we welcome the Legends players into the tournament.
Welcome to the Irrigation Tasmania 2012 Highlands Pro Am.
Venue:
Bothwell Golf Club
Highland Lakes Road
Bothwell TAS 7030
Phone: 0409 595 702 (Greg Ramsay)
Fax: (03) 6259 5702
Email: info@rathogolf.com
Event Email Contact: Andrew Prior
Website: www.rathogolf.com
Directions: Drive 45 minutes north from Hobart turning left at Melton Mowbray and follow the signs to Bothwell a further 30 minutes on. Once at Bothwell, a small central highlands town, follow the signposted directions to the course.
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About the course:
The Ratho Golf Links were first laid out and enjoyed by the pioneering Reid family, who emigrated from Scotland and settled Ratho in 1822. It is Australia's oldest golf course, and the oldest remaining outside of Scotland.
The Ratho Golf Links is a time capsule, among the best preserved of all the world's early golf courses. Its most apparent uniqueness is the sheep, which graze and keep the playing areas short, with fences to keep them from the square greens. At first glance, this appears to be little more than a backwards blend of farming and recreation outside a small country town. And so it is. But so golf began.
As well as Ratho's above-ground originality, it still distinctively plays like early golf. The lack of automatic watering preserves the varying challenges through the seasons: hard and fast in summer through autumn, frosty and firm in the winter, before softening up with the lush green of spring. Limited tree planting through the years ensures the everpresent wind from different directions demands varying lines of attack and shotmaking.
In playing Ratho you experience what golf was like during the 1800s, before the mechanisation of course maintenance, or the introduction of year-round watering and the advent of 250-metre drives.
**The Bothwell Pro-Am is played over 15 holes. Par 56.
Practice Facilities:
- Putting Green
- Chipping Green
Player Information:
Stampede at Ratho Farm - Monday, 30th January
All players welcome to attend and be the first to check out the new course layout at Bothwell Golf Club. Tee times from 4pm. Click here to view flyer. To book contact Andrew Prior at Station on: 0400 018 114 or email: andrew@stationco.com.au
Pro-Am - Tuesday, 31st January
Tee Times: 8:30am and 12:30pm shotgun starts.
This is the player entry list as at 24/1/2012 at 2.50pm. If you have entered this event prior to this date and your name does not appear on this list, please contact Sharon at the PGA Southern Division office via email: sharon@pga.org.au or phone on (03) 8320 1983 to advise same.
1 BJ Chatham VIC
2 Robert Dehne TAS
3 Hugh Dolan QLD
4 John Downs QLD
5 Peter Freeland TAS
6 Luke Frith TAS
7 Steve Frith TAS
8 Dean Gascoyne VIC
9 Bryce Gorham TAS
10 Wesley Greene VIC
11 Craig Hancock TAS
12 Glen Haynes VIC
13 Alex Head TAS
14 Simon Houston WA
15 David Hughes NSW
16 Doug Kercher QLD
17 John Martin QLD
18 Tristan McCallum WA
19 Geoffrey Nicholas NSW
20 Michael Paterson VIC
21 Scott Priest ACT
22 Clint Rice TAS
23 Kalem Richardson TAS
24 Zak Rollins SA
25 Anthony Rowlings TAS
26 Darren Spencer TAS
27 Daniel Stevenson QLD
28 Nathan Uebergang QLD
29 Nicholas White TAS
30 Paul Williamson QLD
31 Patrick Willson WA